Continuously readjusting assumptions about Lisa can spur introspection in the viewer, and correspondingly readjust our assumptions about white saviors, imperiled young ones and self-desire vs. Directed and co-written by Ava DuVernay, When They See Us is a potent and urgent account of the 1989 Central Park Five scenario, in which 5 minority youngsters had been wrongly convicted of the assault and rape of a white woman jogger.